Owls

Because I am hosting a contest on IG, with the theme being owls (which ends on the 15th!), I wanted to show my followers that doing owls is easy peasy, even for a person who isn't good at doing nail art. And I sure am not good at doing a lot of nail art.

This manicure is inspired by Cristina over at Let Them Have Polish. Check out her blog HERE!

Here's what I did:
1 coat Nail Magic
1 coat Gelous
Then I took reinforcement stickers and placed them at the bottom of my nail, and painted the tips. All colors are apart of Color Club's All About Color collection...again, they still don't have names. I used a dotting tool for all the details.
1 coat Seche Vite

Mine don't look nearly good as Cristina's over at Let Them Have Polish, but hey, I tried. :D

Hope you all enjoy!

Until next time...

Christina


Disclosure *I was not paid for this review. I was not given the polish for this review. I paid for the polish with my own money. This is purely my own opinion, thoughts, and suggestions about this polish.*

Painting the roses REEEED

Good evening! I have a pretty cool manicure to share with you. I went onto Youtube and found a rose tutorial. You can find the video I used as a reference HERE! This gal on Youtube has some AWESOME tutorials, go check her out!

So here's my version:

Here's what I did:
1 coat Nail Magic
1 coat Gelous
2 coats Orly's Decades of Dysfunction

Then I followed the tutorial by taking a large dotting tool with Wet n Wild's Candy-licious and placing the dots for the roses. Then, using a small detail paint brush, I tool Wet n Wild's I Red A Good Book and painted the "leaves" or detail of the roses. Using the same brush, I used China Glaze's Agro for the leaves.

I topped it all off with a thick coat of Seche Vite.

I am really proud of myself, to be honest. I don't do a lot of hand painted nail art, and I'd like to say with this being my first try, I did a pretty darn good job!

Orly's Decades of Dysfunction will be one of my new favorite polishes of all time. It is AWESOME. Application was a breeze, the soft pinkish/white/off whiteish color is gorgeous. I picked this bottle up at Sally's Beauty Supply on the clearance rack! What an awesome find!!!

What do you all think of this manicure? Have you done this? Have you done any other Youtube tutorial manicures?

I hope you all have a wonderful evening!

Until next time....

Christina


Disclosure *I was not paid for this review. I was not given the polish for this review. I paid for the polish with my own money. This is purely my own opinion, thoughts, and suggestions about this polish.*

Lava Lamp Nails

Goooood morning!!

There has been a trend on Instagram that I knew I had to try. There isn't a definite name to them, but I like to call them Lava Lamp Nails.

I must admit, these were harder than I thought they'd be. But since I've done them once, I am positive I can improve my skills on them. In concept, they seem very easy.

So here's what I did.

1 coat Nail Magic
1 coat Gelous
2 coats NYC French White Tip
I painted half of my nail with Pure Ice Black Rage
Then I took a medium sized dotting tool, and placed the dots along side the diagonal line I created. Then placed the opposite color  dots on each side of the line.
I topped it all off with Seche Vite.

These nails really look so cool on. I feel like they're melting into each other. It's beautiful. I, being my worst critic, see some flaws, but practice makes perfect, so I will for sure be doing these again. I'm glad I did the mixture of black and white for my first time with these. I think it really shows the dramatic dripping to the work. I love it.

What do you all think of these? Have you seen these be done before? Would you try this? What colors would you use?

Until next time....

Christina



Disclosure *I was not paid for this review. I was not given the polish for this review. I paid for the polish with my own money. This is purely my own opinion, thoughts, and suggestions about this polish.*